Meet the
Founders and Organizers
The MyoSphere!
Dr. Dawn Moore CCC-SLP, COM, QOM
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Dr. Dawn Moore ClinScD., CCC-SLP, COM®, aka "The Tongue Dr.", is the Founder and Executive Director of Expressions Speech, Language, & Myofunctional Center, a multi-specialty practice serving both children and adults in Burlington, North Carolina. Dr. Moore is a Board Certified and Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist holding the Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) and is currently licensed in North Carolina, Illinois, Georgia, Missouri, and Arizona.
Dr. Moore has over 24 years of experience in Speech-Language Pathology, earning her clinical doctorate in 2018. For 15 years, she practiced in the schools of North Carolina as both a clinician and Lead SLP, earning recognition as a Teacher of Excellence, before expanding into private practice in 2010, serving children of all ages. Her main interests include orofacial myology and speech sound disorders (articulation, phonological delay, and apraxia). She uses her own program, Let’s Hear It For /R/!, which was the subject of her doctoral clinical study, to correct the difficult /r/ sound. For phonology, she uses Barbara Hodson’s Cycles for Phonology due to the success she continues to have with the program. As an ASHA CEU Provider, her continuing education company, Expressions Seminars, provides live, online, and on-demand practical, clinical training for speech sound disorders and orofacial myology.
​Dr. Moore became a Certified Orofacial Myologist (COM®), through the International Association of Orofacial Myology (IAOM) and a Qualified Orofacial Myologist (QOM®) through NeoHealth Services, after struggling to find help for her own daughter with a severe tongue thrust. Through this training, she began serving patients, both in-person and online, while completing extensive continuing education including becoming a Certified Myo Munchee Practitioner through Myo Munchee (Australia).
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Dr. Moore regularly presents across the country, in-person and online, educating SLPs, orthodontists, ENTs, and dental professionals about the impact myofunctional disorders have on speech, feeding, chewing, breathing, and dentition. She launched The Tongue Dr. website as a community outreach effort to continue to disseminate this crucial information to both patients and professionals.
Karen Masters has been practicing speech pathology for over 30 years. Karen is Board Certified by the American Speech Language and Hearing Association and licensed by the State of New Jersey. She has worked in a variety of settings including a residential special needs school, public schools and home health. Karen found her passion when she joined a private practice over 20 years ago. When the owner retired, she took over the practice growing it into a multidisciplinary practice serving Chatham New Jersey and the surrounding communities.
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Karen began her learning journey into Orofacial Myology in 2014 when she took the 28-hour Orofacial Myology training class with NeoHealth Services. Since that time she became a Certified Orofacial Myologist (COM®) through the IAOM and a Qualified Orofacial Myologist (QOM®) through NeoHealth. She also works as the NeoHealth Graduate Coordinator and prior to COVID, planned and attended all the live training events for that organization.
Karen enjoys collaborating with orthodontists, dentists, ENT’s and anyone else willing to learn about the impact of oral dysfunction! Through her work with NeoHealth, Karen has met so many outstanding colleagues and it is a dream come true to collaborate with these amazing women to create more learning opportunities.
Karen Masters CCC-SLP, COM, QOM
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Lindsey Doyle CCC-SLP, COM
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Lindsey Doyle is the owner of Myo Speech, & Feeding Cetner. Lindsey is a Board Certified Speech-Language Pathologist, and Certified Orofacial Myologist (COM®). She graduated undergrad from University of New Hampshire in 2003 and from graduate school at South Carolina State in 2007. She has had experience working in variety of settings: public schools, collaborative programs, outpatient rehabilitation, early intervention, and private practice.
Lindsey has been in private practice for over 10 years and has a special interest and recognition in diagnosis and treatment with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS), orofacial myofunctional disorders (OMDs), and oral motor dysfunction as it relates to feeding and speech disorders of all ages. Lindsey has been mentored by Diane Bahr, MS, CCC-SLP, which led Lindsey on the path to working with infants. She enjoys treating young children in hopes to avoid later myofunctional disorders. She continues to seek out continuing education courses in order to improve her therapy techniques and assist her clients in achieving their speech, feeding, and communication goals.